Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/03/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Sorry, Sam, but this is just so much - noise. Most of my work does NOT require instant turn around, and I am not being forced by any bosses to go with digital. But I am finding more and more that not only is digital giving me - in most cases - the quality film gives me - but it is also giving me more options. *Digital gives me the ability to shoot color and have much easier control over that color - without paying for color film or processing. *Digital gives me the ability to have 12 - count 'em - 24 different film types in my camera for each and every shot - 100, 200, 400, 800, 1600, and 3200 asa daylight color film; 100, 200, 400, 800, 1600, and 3200 tungsten color film; 100,200,400,800,1600, and 3200 asa pan black and white film; and 100, 200,400,800,1600, and 3200 asa ortho black and white film. *Digital gives me the freedom to shoot for my own pleasure without worrying for a nanosecond about cost; cost may not be an issue for you, but it sure is for me, and cost constraints severely limit my personal shooting when I'm using film. *Digital gives me instant feedback - when and if I want it - to adjust exposure, color balance, etc. - and make sure that I'm getting what I want. *Digital cuts my time to output IF I'm going quick and dirty. If I'm going for quality, there is as much time involved in digital post-shoot work as there is in scanning and printing film. Sure, digital is evolving, and will continue to evolve. But so what. Would you have poo-poohed early 35 mm as just some capitalistic plot designed to dump excess movie stock the way you poo-pooh digital. No one is saying you have to shoot digital. You can - and I'd guess will - - keep shooting primarilly film until you die. That's your choice and right. And if that's the way you can produce the best photography for you, that's what you should do. But recognize that digital isn't some weird fad, dreamed up to sell cameras. Digital is most of the present, and all but a minute fraction of the future of photography. B. D. - -----Original Message----- From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Sam Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 6:30 PM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: Re: [Leica] epson digital RF report pages No, I'm saying we are going through a period in which just about everyone believes they need a digital camera, and if they had one so many things would be done better. Even those people who are forced to use digital because it's been imposed on them by bosses are merely being compelled by the forces of whim. If getting more pictures faster is important to a news outlet (for example), why the hell is the news 85% nonessential garbage? Are there any signs that digital has improved anything? None. To the vast majority it's a novelty made to appear like a need. It's much like when the first 8 bit home computers became available. How much serious work was done on Atari 800s and Commodore 64s? Not much, but they were made to sound as if your whole life would be dramatically changed. Instead of dramatic change we got Pac Man. Sam S mail@steveunsworth.co.uk wrote: >Sam > >Are you saying that digital in itself is a fad and will soon go away? > >Regards > >Steve > >Sam <sam@osheaven.net> wrote on 11.03.2004, 18:29:51: > > > >>Besides, digital is faddish at the moment and not dependent on logic. >> >>Sam S >> >> >-- >To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > > > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html